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by steve

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I have just got a Sony Vaio laptop running Vista Business, and wish to add it to my XP Pro Network.

My network consists of:
2 x XP Pro Machines on 'WORKGROUP' (Wired conection)
2 x XP Pro Laptops on 'WORKGROUP' (Wireless)
1x Wireless Router
2 x Printers (Wired)
1 x NAS Drive (Wired)

All of the XP machines have LLTD installed and I am able to view all of the machines (although not printers and the NAS drive) through the Network Map feature on my VISTA laptop.

I am, however, unable to access any of the machines that are in view, and can not see my VISTA machine on any of the XP Pro machines.

Is someone able to offer any advice?

All machines are running AVG Anivirus software (which Grisoft have confirmed that this should not provide any problem).

The NAS drive is a big problem for me also, as this is a central storage point for the network, and it is crutial that my VISTA laptop is able to access this drive.

Many thanks.

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by techexec2

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The problems you are experiencing were designed into Vista, but I expect you know that as you already installed LLTD on your XP machines. I suggest reading here (2)(3)(4)(5).

If your NAS device runs Linux and SAMBA (very common), changes made to Vista peer networking make Vista incompatible with Linux and SAMBA. See (1).

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(1) Getting Vista to work with Samba
http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS4434907782.html

(2) File and Printer Sharing in Windows Vista
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/network/evaluate/vista_fp.mspx

(3) Teach XP and Vista to play nice on networks
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9019179

(4) Q & A: Networking between Vista and XP
http://www.chicagotech.net/netforums/viewtopic.php?p=676&sid=fc9f9c45fbc04334afd371bbb4f6e376

(5) Info: Step by step troubleshooting VISTA sharing
http://www.chicagotech.net/netforums/viewtopic.php?p=449#449

by steve

Somehow, I've managed to get everythign working without problems.

I renamed our workgroup, and eventualy, everything just seemed to work. I also uninstalled Norton that came pre-installed but hadn't been activated.

Thank you for your response though.

by mypl8s4u2

90% of the time, this problem is a firewall problem. Since you uninstalled Norton, you solved the problem. But for future, turn off the firewall, do your connections, then enable it slowly.

by fil0403

I honestly don't understand the thank you when what he did was basically blame the OS and claim the company who developed the OS had the wonderful idea of incorporating problems into one of their problems but this is how a supposed inherent problem with Vista was easily fixed by the user.
Where did I see this already...?

by fil0403

The bias you are showing was born with you, but I expect you to know what was designed (and may be causing his problems) into Vista weren't the problems, but the network features to avoid security-related problems.

by hefni.el.tarzi

I did the following:
a) Installed LLTD on all XP machines.
b) Renamed workgroup on all machines to one and the same name.
c) Set the vista on "private" network.
d) Assigned "shared" folders on all machines
e) Now I coud see all machines in the Vista map but could not yet access them.
f) Activated Windows firewall on the Vista, deactivated firewall on the Vista's antivirus program AND added IP addresses of all the non-vista machines in the antivirus "allow" box.
e) Now I can access "shared" folders from any of the machines as well as print out.

I believe, the keys were firewall and antivirus.

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